Anyone removed the resonator in their V8's?
 

I did it for my 540 but it was a non-TU. It sounded great but a friend did the same to his 540 but has the TU motor and complained of raspy sound in the mid ranges.

thoughts?

thanks!

Lots of us have. It was one of the first things I did to my 2000 540 (tu) and, 11 years later to my 2004 4.8is. Sound is awesome. I never had a problem with raspy in the E39.

one of my first mods was getting rid of that paper weight and putting in a xpipe, best mod

Thanks! where did you get the X pipe? I was thinking about just cutting it out and slapping in a tube with exhaust clamps.

Hmmm.... I never thought about doing that to my n62 545i. Might have to do that too.

Mine was X-piped before I bought it, didn't realize it until I crawled around under it. No rasp whatsover, I actually wouldn't mind a bit more rumble...

One of first things I did with my car.. I also got H pipe instead of X pipe... Love the sound..

Can anyone post images of the mod please? I too would like to give my X a bit more beefy sound, but unsure of this mod, where to get the pipe or if a local muffler shop can simply do this for me.

Does anyone have pics of the X pipe installed?


John

My friends google is your friend..

and there is one post already here with it. See below:

http://www.xoutpost.com/attachments/...wer-xpipe3.jpg

and another good one:

http://xoutpost.com/gallery/files/2/5/finished_xpip.jpg